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Anonymous Thu Dec 10 03:46:37 2020 No.16990530 [Reply] [Original]

What are some "Soulslike" books?
Lord of the Rings is the only one I can think of.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 10 04:26:44 2020 No.16990662 fucking hate the term 'soulslike' but if you want something more than just Dark Fantasy then BoTNS is like Dark Souls in both scope and atmosphere alternative pick just read Berserk manga

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 10 05:43:20 2020 No.16990893 >>16990662 this. I've been reading both lately, and it is top tier

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 10 05:51:39 2020 No.16990914 File: 765 KB, 720x1520, Screenshot_20201210-025037_Chrome.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I read these in a different life.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 10 06:03:12 2020 No.16990959 >>16990530 Book of the New Sun Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborea and Zothique stories The Worm Ouroboros

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 10 08:00:34 2020 No.16991402 What part of it? The Chivalry? The dread? The Apocalypse? Or the groundwork of a high fantasy setting before everybody important decayed?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 10 08:03:18 2020 No.16991414 >>16990530 Berserk comic/manga books

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 10 08:04:26 2020 No.16991420 File: 12 KB, 184x274, bakker.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16990530 berserk if it was a book >>16990914 kino

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 10 08:05:29 2020 No.16991426 >>16991402 >>16991420 literally the 2nd apocalypse

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 10 08:07:40 2020 No.16991435 >>16990662 Dark Fantasy is not Apocalyptic High Fantasy. Dark Fantasy is a meaningless buzzword that is applied whenever some kind of flavor of grim or even classic folklore is tied in. Or just grimderp .

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 10 08:31:47 2020 No.16991524 The worm ouroborus Dream quest of unkown Kadath is basically the plot to darksouls

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 10 09:17:40 2020 No.16991754 >>16990530 What is 'soulslike'? A journey to restore hope in a hopeless world, only to realize that it's hopeless in the very beginning?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 10 09:32:12 2020 No.16991837 >>16991754 I think it means something that is reminiscent of the video game Dark Souls

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 10 10:01:38 2020 No.16991974 >>16991754 >A journey to restore hope in a hopeless world, only to realize that it's hopeless in the very beginning? But then to realise that hope is its own reward.